Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-05
TWO LIBEL SUITS
Against the "IntelIigencer" and DIR. D.. w
Mccoy for $1,000 Each.

Against the "IutelIigencer" and DIR. j. w.
Mccoy for $4,000 Each.
Rumors have been heard recently TO the
effect that DR.. J. II. Pipes, of the Eighth
ward, intended entering suit against GER
tain parties connected with the Richie
school trouble which has been up in the
Board of Education, of which DR.. Pipes is
President, for the past few months. On
Monday the matter eliminated in The pre-
liminary papers being filed by Messrs.
Russell and DOvenor, attorneys, in the
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, in
two libel suits brought by DR.. Pipes, one
against Messrs John Frew, A. w. Camp
bell and c. B. Hart, publishers of the In.
teligeHCe,, and the other against DR.. James
w. Mccoy. The amount of damages
claimed is $40, 900 in each case. No decla-
rations have yet been filed, hut it is under
stood that the suits are brought Oh account
of utterances and publications concerning
the trouble referred to.
Speaking of the suits editOrially, yester-
day morning, the htcHigencer said:
DT. d. II. IlDtS, ItSIuSII VI thC
School Board, has brought a suit for libel
against the htehigencer, claiming damages
in $4,000. We do not quite understand
this suit. The IntcNigeaccr has not ibeled
DR.. Pipes, but, on the contrary, treated
Inn with great consideration, as Il man in
as much trouble as he is in should be
treated.
"Dr. Pipes should not expect to get a
cent from the IRteLigeHcer. Recently he
called at this office to offer for publication
an article which certain of his friends adj
vised him not to print. He said that other
friends expected him to do something, and
perhaps the libel suit is his way of satisfy
ing that expectation. When he visited
this Office he was told that the paper did
not intend to take sides in his affair, but
would print his article if he cut out a libel
Gus reference to another person. The in
terview was entirely amicable, and DR..
Pipes left to take further counsel of his
friends with regard to the publication he
desired to make. The next heard from him
is the notice of the suit,
"The IRteLigencer has no i'll feeling to-
wards DIR. Pipes, but takes the liberty to
think he has made another mistake. His
suit against DR.. Mccoy rests on different
ground, and may afford an opportunity to
get at the merits of the controversy which
has made so much trouble in the School
Board and in some other places in Wheel
ing"
A REGISTER reporter called upon DR..
Pipes yesterday to ascertain what he had
to say regarding the matter, but the doc
tor was very reticent about it. He, how
ever, called the attention of the reporter to
the editorial presented above, and pointed
ont what be termed several misstatements
in it. The doctor said concerning them:
II called upon Mr.. Hart about q week
since, and we had an amicable chat about
the matter l asked him TO print an ar
tiCle in which was an open reference to a
certain person, and after reading it over
Mr.. HIATT said that if they printed it the
paper would he thrown liable to pr6seGu-
tiOn by the party. l told him if that was
the case l could enter suit against the In
teiligsncer on account of what it had print
ed about me. Mr.. Hart said / could if /
was that sort of a man. He said nothing
10 me at all about cutting out the refer
ence to the party, and when I started
away l told him l would consult with
some OF my friends regarding the publica-
ton of the article. and as | left he told
me that if wished, the LRteRigencer would
print it Just as it was. That was the last
of the matter as far as / am concerned"
The doctor had nothing more to say in
reference to the suits, except that he con-
sidered he had Just and sufficient cause for
his action.